Hoop-projecting device.



T. BARTHOLOMEW.

HOOP PROJECTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED Nov. 26. 1913.

1,163,609. Patented Dec. 7, 1915.

vwemtoz witnesses STATES THOMAS BAR'IHOLOMEW, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO HARRY T. 'HANCE, 01?

- WESTERVILLE, OHIO.

HOOP-PROJECTING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. '7, 1915.

Application filed November 26, 1913. Serial No. 803,143.

To all who-m it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS BARTHOLO- anew, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hoop-Projecting Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to the class of toy illustrated in Letters Patent of the United States No. 912,059, dated February 9, 1909, and No. 935,455, dated September 28, 1909.

The object of the invention is to provide a device that is easier of manufacture and more certain in operation than either of said devices and the invention consists in the construction, an example of which is shown in the accompanying drawing, set forth in the following description and then pointed out in the claims.

The view of the accompanying drawing illustrates the invention in perspective.

In said view 1 designates a base of wood of oblong form. Transversely of the base and through one end thereof edgewise is drilled a hole 2 and the end is sawed with a kerf as at 3 to afford access of a wire to the hole 2. The character 4; designates the projector frame. This frame is made of stiif wire bent to U-form, the ends of the arms thereof being bent outward in opposite directions as indicated at 4. This frame is forced through the saw kerf into the hole 2, said hole forming a bearing in which the frame can oscillate. Between the angles formed by the bent-out ends a is stretched an ordinary rubber band 5.

The projector is operated as follows: The hoop 6 of wood or other suitable material is wedged and positioned between the rubber band 5, which stretches and the base 1 substantially as shown in the view and then the wire frame drawn down toward the base by the application of the fingers of the hand to the bent-out ends 4*. When the wire frame is drawn the arc of the hoop held between the rubber band and the base becomes less until the purchase is no longer sufficient to retain the hoop. The hoop is thereupon forcibly projected and at the same time given a rotary motion by the sudden release of the rubber band from its stretched condition. Said rotary motion continues after the hoop strikes the floor or ground and such motion is of a direction to cause the hoop by friction with the floor or ground to return toward the user after the force of the outward projection is spent. The base can be held in one hand while the other operates the wire frame to release the hoop or said base can be placed on the floor and held when the wire frame is operated.

The device is susceptible of some modifications without departing from the gist of the invention. It is not necessary, for eX- ample, that the frame 5 be made out of one piece of wire.

What I claim is:

1. A hoop projecting device comprising, in combination, a base, a frame fulcrumed thereon, and an elastic member on the frame to engage the rim of the hoop.

2. A hoop projecting device comprising, in combination, a base, a frame fulcrumed thereon, said frame having finger pieces for actuating the same, and an elastic member on the frame to engage the rim of the hoop.

In a hoop projecting device, the combination of a base, and a two armed frame fulcrumed to said base to receive a flexible member extending between them, said flexible member to engage the rim of the hoop, substantially as described.

THOMAS BARTHOLOMEW.

Witnesses BENJAMIN FINGKEL, CASSIUS M. BARTHOLOMEW.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

